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A turntable, a mixer and twin nature: sound artist Maria Chavez

When Maria Chavez decided in 2005 that her performances would no longer be recorded, she was taking a radical stance. In the age of documentation, we hardly differentiate between the recorded event and the event itself. As though gifted with an ability to “play back” time, we watch a video, see a photo, or listen to an audio file, [...]